“Sunshine”
Curtis Dawkins
“George had come back from the visiting room where his girlfriend, Sunshine, just told him she had cancer.”
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Pages For Her
Sylvia Brownrigg
“There was no fall in California, and this had forever been a problem for Flannery.”
The Fall
Bill Roorbach
“They’d driven where Uncle Bud had shown them on his tattered maps—west on a long unmarked logging road deep into the woods, through two unattended paper-company gates, then north on a faint jeep trail, once much used, no longer.”
No Frills
Janet Capron
“The taxi sailed downtown along the East River, on its way to deliver me to my first whorehouse.”
Dear Cyborgs
Eugene Lim
“Dave said, I’d met this guy at a bar who happened to be a night guard at The Frick museum, and he said he could, since he knew I was a painter (‘Only a Sunday painter,’ I’d said; ‘Whatever,’ this guy’d said), if I was interested, let me in to the museum after hours.”
“We Were the Drowners”
Josie Sigler
“It was every Dolphin’s loftiest goal: to be chosen by Jim Yablonski, director of the Downriver Municipal Outdoor Pool, as one of his Drowners.”
Extraordinary Adventures
Daniel Wallace
“For her seventieth birthday, Bronfman had ordered his mother a pair of battery-heated socks because she said her feet were always, always cold.”
The Last Kid Left
Rosecrans Baldwin
“Suzanne Toussaint is long-bodied and thin-skinned and always cold.”
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